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    What does everyone grow over winter in their veg plots?
    I thought I would like to utilize the space.
    Evie b

  • #2
    Bored very often And cardboard.

    Leeks, cabbage (not many), PSB, Sprouts, perpetual spinach, parsnips (don't mention the war snips )
    "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

    Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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    • #3
      Cabbages (various types), PSB, white sprouting brocolli, sprouts, kale, leeks, parsnips, swede and quite a bit of green manure. Also will be growing winter salads in the polytunnel as well as overwintered peas, garlic, broad beans and onions.

      Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

      Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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      • #4
        Same as Alison, except I don't have a polytunnel.
        History teaches us that history teaches us nothing. - Hegel

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        • #5
          Sprouts, kale, leeks, parsnips, garlic and salad in pots in my greenhouse!

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          • #6
            Leeks, kale, cabbage, PSB, parsnips. And at home various herbs and leafy salads.

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            • #7
              Thanks all for your replies. Will give it a go in the winter.
              Evie b

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              • #8
                Don't wait till Winter you need to be starting sowing now ........
                S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by binley100 View Post
                  Don't wait till Winter you need to be starting sowing now ........
                  Planting out now: sowing was done in April/May
                  All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                  • #10
                    You can still sow the salad leaves, etc later in the year but get yourself to a nursery for already sown brassica plants or see if anyone has them on something like Freecycle, car boots etc.
                    RtB x

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                    • #11
                      When's the latest you can put parsnip seeds straight into the ground? i thought I was too late by the date given on the packet, and put a couple of rows in two weeks ago - and they've come up...Do I just carry on putting some more in? Will they grow?

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                      • #12
                        you'll not get much in the way of parsnips from sowings this late as they need a long growing season.

                        Mine were sown March/April and are looking monstrous
                        Last edited by solway cropper; 05-07-2010, 11:08 PM.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by NettyUK View Post
                          When's the latest you can put parsnip seeds straight into the ground? i thought I was too late by the date given on the packet, and put a couple of rows in two weeks ago - and they've come up...Do I just carry on putting some more in? Will they grow?
                          I've still not sown mine....must get to it.

                          Difficult to say Nettie as we don't know where in the UK you are. North I'd say perhaps not, South I'd say yes.
                          Last edited by zazen999; 06-07-2010, 06:51 AM.

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                          • #14
                            im trying to use my space in the winter aswell for the first time this year. ive got PSB, swiss chard and Kale in little pots at the moment till they get a bit bigger to go out. ive also grown some salsify. i will also be sowing some winter lettuces in autumn.
                            http://pot-to-plot.blogspot.com/ My brand spanking new plot

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                            • #15
                              I'm in the midlands so it could go either way :-)

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